Marieke Voorsluijs, dedicated mother and a designer for Amsterdam knitting shop Club Geluk, wrote for Bored Panda, in a post titled “My Son Doesn’t Want To Cuddle Anymore So I Knit A Cuddly Version Of Him,” about what drove her to knit a terrifying life-size version of her son out of yarn:

“We used to cuddle all the time, but those days are becoming scarce. We laugh a lot about the stretching gap between his needs and mine. Him needing more of his own space and my covert needs to keep on smothering him with maternal love. I am a textiles designer and he often helps me and has great creative ideas. So we started to fantasize how we could visualize this puberty gap. So I suggested to make a cuddly version of him!”

MOMMY! However, more bizarrely, according to Mashable the yarn-son is not stuffed and is more of a human yarn suit than it is a human yarn stuffed animal. Huh. So she can still only cuddle with her son when he’s wearing the yarn suit.